So says Sinclair Ferguson on Romans 6:6. Speaking to a gathering of pastors a couple years ago, Ferguson shared his sentiment that most people who sit before the preached word each week do not know what it means to be united to Jesus. And yet this doctrine is so central in how Paul conceives of what it means to be a Christian and a minister of the gospel. We want to know what it means.

There are some sermons we're shy to recommend, not because they're bad, but because they've been so helpful we fear we cannot do them justice. And we fear that their deep helpfulness to us can't be replicated for others. Well, this sermon is like that. A friend (so helped by it that he transcribed the whole thing) commended it to me. Now to you, here goes: